Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist who lived between 1867-1934. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered two new elements (radium and polonium, two radioactive elements that they extracted chemically from pitchblende ore) and studied the x-rays they emitted. She found that the harmful properties of x-rays were able to kill tumors. By the end of World War I, Marie Curie was probably the most famous woman in the world. She had made a conscious decision, however, not to patent methods of processing radium or its medical applications.

   Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Poland and died on July 4, 1934. Her co-discovery with her husband Pierre Curie of the radioactive elements radium and polonium(钋) represents one of the best known stories in modern science for which they were recognized in 1901 with the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911, Marie Curie was honored with a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, to honor her for successfully isolating pure radium and determining radium's atomic weight.

  As a child, Marie Curie amazed people with her great memory. She learned to read when she was only four years old. Her father was a professor of science and the instruments that he kept in a glass case fascinated Marie. She dreamed of becoming a scientist, but that would not be easy. Her family became very poor, and at the age of 18, Marie became a governess. She helped pay for her sister to study in Paris. Later, her sister helped Marie with her education. In 1891, Marie attended the Sorbonne University in Paris where she met and married Pierre Curie, a well-known physicist.

   Marie Curie contributed greatly to our understanding of radioactivity and the effects of x-rays. She received two Nobel prizes for her brilliant work, but died of leukemia(白血病), caused by her repeated exposure to radioactive material.

What is the main idea of the passage?

A. To give us a general introduction to Madame Curie

B. To show us how Madame Curie discovered radium.

C. To tell us how Madame Curie developed as a scientist.

D. To tell us how Madame Curie received two Nobel Prizes.

Madame Curie was give the Nobel Prize in chemistry because________ .

A. She discovered radium

B. She separated pure radium and calculated its atomic weight

C. She discovered polonium

D. She didn’t patent methods of processing radium

Which of the following statements about Madame Curie is Not True?

A. Madame Curie made great contributions to medical science.

B. Madame Curie was very smart and ambitious when she was a child.

C. Madame Curie received two Nobel Prizes in physics.

D. Madame Curie’s husband helped her a lot in her research.

Which is the right order about Madam Curie according to the passage?

a . married Pierre       b. attended University       c. discovered radium  

d. determined radium’s atomic weight               e. won the Nobel Prize in physics

A. b, c, a, d, e      B. b, a, c, d, e     C. b, a, c, e, d     D. b, c, a, e, d

Miss Gogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”
Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That's every good,” Miss Gogers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gogers said. “Yes, Kate.”
“I disagree,” Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it's 11 o'clock here it's only 8 o'clock in Los Angeles.”
【小题1】Miss Gogers was teaching her class_________.

A.how to telephone  B.about electricity
C.about time zone(时区)  D.about sound
【小题2】Miss Gogers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.
A.it was easy to phone to Los Angeles  B.her student could hear her from 75 feet away
C.her students had grasped(理解)her lesson.D.sound waves were slower than electricity
【小题3】Tom thought that electricity was _________.
A.slower than sound waves  B.faster than sound waves
C.not so fast as sound waves   D.as fast as sound waves
【小题4】Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.
A.clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York
B.electricity was slower than sound waves
C.Tom was not good at physics at all
D.Tom's answer had nothing to do with sound waves
【小题5】Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?
A.Tom'sB.Kate'sC.Bath A and BD.Neither A nor B

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